You'll find several areas of interest regarding XML usage in SQL Server Reporting Services.

What are the advantages of using Access as the front end to a SQL Server database? For starters, it's likely that your client's users will be more familiar with it, and it's relatively easy to put ...

I blogged previously on the ease of use of GroovySql , which is Groovy 's easy-to-use JDBC -based data access approach.